Title & Author:

The new urban history: quantitative explorations by American historians / edited by Leo F. Schnore. With a foreword by Eric E. Lampard. Contributors: Martyn J. Bowden [and others].

Publication:

[Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press [1975]

Description:

ix, 284 pages illustrations 25 cm

Series:

Quantitative studies in history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Part One: The Growth and Function of Cities -- 1. Large-city Interdependence and the Pre- electronic Diffusion of Innovations in the United States/Allan R. Pred -- 2. Growth of the Central Districts in Large Cities/Martyn J. Bowden -- 3. Urban Deconcentration in the Nineteenth Century: A Statistical Inquiry/Kenneth T. Jackson -- Part Two: Accommodations to the Urban Environment -- 4. Patterns of Residence in Early Milwaukee/Kathleen Neils Conzen -- 5. Urban Blacks in the South, 1865-1920: An Analysis of Some Quantitative Data on Richmond, Savannah, New Orleans, Louisville, and Birmingham/Zane L. Miller -- 6. Fundamentalism and Urbanization: A Quantitative Critique of Impressionistic Interpretations/Gregory H. Singleton -- Part Three: Economic Analysis of Urban-Historical Phenomena -- 7. Urbanization and Slavery: The Issue of Compatibility/Claudia Dale Goldin -- 8. Urbanization and Inventiveness in the United States, 1870-1920/Robert Higgs -- Firm Locationa dn Optimal City Size in American History/Joseph A. Swanson and Jeffery G. Williamson.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français
Publisher description

ISBN:

0691100268
9780691100265
0691046247
9780691046242

Subject:

Cities and towns United States History.
Villes États-Unis Histoire.
Cities and towns
United States

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Schnore, Leo Francis, 1927- editor.
Lampard, Eric E., writer of foreword.
Bowden, Martyn J., contributor.
Quantitative studies in history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 94513
Call No.: ID GDER; ID:85-B14113
Status: Available